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Join Robert Scoble and Shel Israel for the launch of their new book, Age of Context, which is about how sensors, wearable computers, machine learning, social, and location data are changing our world, our privacy, and bringing us highly assistive and personalized products and services.
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Google+ Relevance CircleWhat people of "relevance" do we have in common? Care to share?This big shared circle contains my most "relevant" circles according to G+. It also only contains people/profiles who post publicly (Either occasionally or prolifically).Do you recognize others in the list? (I think the probability is high)As far as I know, the visual beside the "Add people" button below shows you the 8 people from this circle who are most "relevant" to you. Also, if you click that add people button, the list inside is also ordered by "relevance".Some people in this circle I know very well... others I haven't met at all (Besides interfacing with what they share publicly on G+) I'm curious, what circles do we share of high relevance? Give a few people shout outs! Let's have a random chat.You were likely notified of this post... I normally don't share to any of my specific circles, so as to avoid sending out unwanted notifications... But since I have you and your attention here... HELLO! Have we talked before? Why do you think I have you circled? What's of relevance for you? (Besides people on G+) If we do know each other... Have we been in touch lately? If not, let please catch up!﻿

My #ORIGINACIRCLE which has many awesome people who share awesome stuffif you want to get include in this circle1.You just simply message me or comment in this circle so i will analyse your profile, seeing that is that profile suite to get shared in this circle ﻿

Hope that you have been having a great week on Google+. Thank you for sharing and promoting this and for connecting up with all the great accounts I have included. Great With This Cilcle!!, And Please..Boost your visibility on Google+ - Share the circle!Boost your visibility on Google+ - Share the circle!To be added to the Circle you have to do these simple steps, and get more friend and circle on +Google+ :» Include me in your circles» Click add people and create your circle» +1 this circle» Publicly share this circle to public, your circles and extended circles. ( share the circle and include yourself )» If possible, leave a comment on this circle so I know you have done the three steps above (I say "if possible" as my circle comments more often than not hit the 500 comment limit).» So I can easily find your share, always publicly share my original shared circle. #circle #circleshare #circlesharing #circles #circleoftheday #circlemeup #circlemenow #bestcircle #bestcircleshare #megacircle #bigcircle #bigcircleshare #funnyvideo #funnyvideos #funnyvideosyoutube #funnyvideoclips #funnyvideooftheday #circle #circleshare #circlesharing #circleshared #share #sharedcircles #sharedcircleoftheday #engagers #engagerscircle #engagerspeople

Hello AllHere is my RANDOM Circle... V1.8 - 131123The circle has shrunk a little this week lets see if we can build it back up again. Please share and invite people to join the circle.247 people did not move from the last RANDOM circle, don't be one of them for the next circle.RULES1. Leave a comment saying who you would like to add.(min 1 name - max 10 names)2. Publicly Share the postIn the next circle I will add the people you added or mentioned and yourself (If you give more than 10 names I will only add the first 10)Re-Sharers also automatically get added to my Re-Share Circle and the last one has been shared 211 times so far.http://updateslaluz.blogspot.com﻿

Here are some cool people to #circle on #GooglePlus - If you want adding to the next shared circle, then please add the circle, comment, share, and +1 the post. I'll be promoting someones social accounts, every time, I share one of my circles.In this circle, I'm promoting +Jen Schubert, Jen is a lego engineer in the STEM world, she teaches kids how to do cool stuff with lego :-)Please, follow all of her social accounts.Twitter: https://twitter.com/sillyauntjenFacebook: https://facebook.com/sillyauntjenPinterest: http://pinterest.com/sillyauntjenGoogle+: +Jen Schubert #circleshare #circlesharing #sharedcircles #sharedpubliccircles +Shared Circles +Share Your Circle +Shared Circles on G+ +Best Shared Circle +Circle Distribution +Team Circle Share +Share My Circle ﻿

#circlesharing #circleshare #topengagers #sharedpubliccircles #sharedcircles #sharedcircle a very good circle is being built... to be included you have to1) share this circle2) +1 to this post3) comment it.﻿

These are all people I was recommended to follow! They are currently in my Temporary circle, and I'll follow them permanently based on their engagement with me in the next day or so! #circleshare #sharedcircles #publiccircle #circlesharing #circleoftheday #circlemaster #circle #addmetoyourcircles #addmetocircles #addmenow #addmepleasethanks ﻿

SHARE YOUR CIRCLES COMMUNITY CIRCLE 8.26.13Welcome to this new circle which has members of the Share Your Circle Community. This is a great place to Find and Add Circles#circleoftheday #circleshare #circlesharing #circlesharingforthepeopleplc #sharedcircles #sharedpubliccircles #sharedcircleoftheday #sharedcircleday #publiccirclesproject #publiccircles #publicsharedcircles #sharedpublicircles #circle #circles #circlemeup #awesomepeople #awesomecircle #circleme #sharedpoint #sharewithyou #ShareYourCircle﻿

G+ Engagers CircleIt's been a while since I shared a circle, so here's a small circle of people I recommend following. They are great to engage with, full of energy and opinions and fun, with very little anger, disrespect, or poor manners. Hope you enjoy all of them as much as I do. They certainly make my time in G+ lots of fun. :)﻿

BMN's Tech Journalist And Blogger List. IWe Have hand picked the best tech journalists on Google+. Most of these people are active. If you find anyone here who isn't active, let me know and I'll remove them.This feed will rock and roll for the hard core geeks out there.﻿

Socially Influential Google+ UsersThis is a hand picked circle of highly influential Google+ Users.To be added tho this or other circles do the following.1. Share this circle publicly2. Make sure your profile description is complete and country are visible in your profile3. Leave a comment4. Have a wonderful experience! #sharedcircles #sharedpubliccircles #sharedcircleoftheday ﻿

Socially Engaged Google+ Users Updated 3-15-13Shared public circle of socially engaging and socially influential Google+ users.Feel free to add and share. To be added to this or other circles please do the following.1. Share this circle2. Confirm your share by leaving a comment on this postThis is a hand picked circle. #sharedcircles #sharedcircleoftheday #sharedpubliccircles Enjoy!﻿

Tech Engage CircleHello Everyone just following the footsteps of +martin shervington and attempting to circle share fully engaged circles with you. Below I'm sharing a circle of definite Technology posters. If your new to this platform and needed a circle for sure fire tech news and help. *Be sure to add and re-share this circle.* Later Guys!﻿

My first circle share. I'm mainly doing this for +Deb J Canales who I can see is becoming more active on +Google+ . Good on ya, friend!This is a circle of people and groups who share my passion for all things technology. If you're not in it and feel you should be, go ahead and comment here and I will gladly add you.Happy interacting!﻿

This circle is the third of four containing people who've commented on content I share. They make my stream come alive with compelling, interesting discussions. If you want your stream to be active, you won't do better then including them. Fair warning: Some of these people are willing to take a stand that may be different then those I'd take. :)﻿

Friday Circle Share: This is the third of three circles that contains the people who make my streams come alive. These are the passionate, witty, intellegent people who comment. I may not agree with them, but I always learn somthing from them. Fair warning. Not everyone in this circle is a leftie. :)﻿

Inform | Act | Share | Stay Aware #InformActShareStayAware #InternetFreedom #SharedCircle Part 2 of 2With the impending #Anonymous day of action tomorrow #PM2012, here's a Circle of people who care about internet freedom.+1 or share to be added.﻿

This is my Geeks CirclePeople who share great content that only matters to us, technology geeks and people interested in the latest advances. :D Enjoy! #sharedcircle #circles #tech #technology #geeks #geekcircle #sharedcircleoftheday ﻿

Happy #CircleShareSunday I'd like to share the #Pluserati circle. You can find them on Alltop here: http://pluserati.alltop.com/ Some people on the list: +Jaana Nyström +Mike Elgan +Amanda Blain +Guy Kawasaki +Thomas Hawk a great circle to follow for great content all the time on Google+.﻿

Last time I shared a relevancy circle was back in July. From then until now (October 19), it's only changed by 7 people, and most but not all of that was near the end of the list. So, it's remarkably consistent.These 99 users are on top of my relevance list (plus me since I'm relevant to myself, so a total of 100). I excluded Pages that were in there so as to only have people.Most of these folks are engaging with me through posts or comments (though some are clearly more by e-mail, such as a family member) and the Circle is definitely more accurate now than last time. Does the algorithm get better over time due to more data? I still suspect that as you go down you end up with a number of close calls in which the algorithm can go either way. If anybody has more details on the relevancy algorithm, I'd still be curious and interested to learn more about it.Anyway, these people are relevant to me and truly help me enjoy my time sharing, talking, discussing, and hanging out on G+. So, thank you to all of you :)TGIF and have a great start to the weekend!P.S. - Typical inconsistent G+ - I could share the Movie Lovers Circle earlier today with about 130 people being notified. However, by mid-morning I couldn't notify the 99 people in this Circle. Now, I can again. But it appears that instead of setting a limit on the number of people in a circle, maybe they've set a limit on the number of people you could notify in a set period of time? Very strange. If anybody has any clue as to why this is, please let me know.

This is a bonus circle, and is actually pretty much where I started when I was creating my first circles - Top 500 PlussersIt is the people with the highest number of users - and is actually now only 308 people. When I first collected the Top 500 Plussers on Google+, I spend a lot of time weeding out the people whose posts in which I didn't particularly have an interest (e.g. almost all of the photographers - nothing against people who post photos to G+, it's just me: this is Google+, not Flickr; people who only ever promote themselves - so quite a lot of the pop musicians). The list that is left are people who, I think, actually contribute to the stream. You may find some surprising choices (Dolly Parton?! Actually, yes!). But I hope you enjoy it.I've kept the name Top 500 even though it is a lot fewer than 500. I like the irony... #circleshare #sharedcircles #celebrity #topcircles ﻿

This is my Independents circle. Mostly Libertarian with a sprinkling of other 3rd partiers and those who do not fit under other political affiliations.Let me know if I've missed you or miscategorized you.Note: You might see shares you find offensive if you circle everyone here. This circle is minimally curated on purpose. You have been warned.

Best of the Best on Google+ -- September 2012 Version!Another amazing circle of awesomeness! These are by far some of the best people and pages to follow on Google+! You won't find such a unique and mixed group as these! Make sure to add the circle or share it! This is perfect for any of you who are new and looking for great people to add! You got amazingly fantastic people like +Tiffany Henry, +Krystyn Chong, +Daria Musk, +Denise De La Vega, +Christopher Lira, +Euro Maestro, +Hanna Silver, +Gary Whitta, +Gabriel Guzman, +Hugo Seijas, +Amanda Blain, +Jaana Nyström, +Liza Sperling, +Bobbi Jo Woods, +Bobak Ferdowsi, +Mark Smith, +Stacy Frazer, +Derek Ross, +

Circle These Awesome Tech Folks!I am always looking for interesting people to circle here so if you have any suggestions for people or circles, leave em in the comments below. Meanwhile, enjoy this circle I created over a few months!

Most plusones: 160

A firmware update to my ASUS RT-N66U just bricked the thing -- it's totally borked, and not (as the ASUS website suggests) in "recovery" mode.

So I'm looking for a suggestion of a router from a company that a) takes security seriously; and b) offers quality. I may end up buying something and reflashing it myself. But I need to get back online fairly quickly.﻿

Looking for router suggestions

A firmware update to my ASUS RT-N66U just bricked the thing -- it's totally borked, and not (as the ASUS website suggests) in "recovery" mode.

So I'm looking for a suggestion of a router from a company that a) takes security seriously; and b) offers quality. I may end up buying something and reflashing it myself. But I need to get back online fairly quickly.﻿___

I'm puzzled by something that's occurred with my email. I installed GNUPG 2 after Thunderbird warned me that it was no longer going to support GNUPG 1, and since then I've had weird issues -- namely that saving to drafts no longer works, and I get a weird error message: "INV_RECP 10 0xFAB623CD".

If anyone has the slightest idea what this means, I'd be grateful for tips.

(Also, is it possible to uninstall the earlier GNUPG?)﻿

Linux gurus:

I'm puzzled by something that's occurred with my email. I installed GNUPG 2 after Thunderbird warned me that it was no longer going to support GNUPG 1, and since then I've had weird issues -- namely that saving to drafts no longer works, and I get a weird error message: "INV_RECP 10 0xFAB623CD".

If anyone has the slightest idea what this means, I'd be grateful for tips.

The explosion of "top level domains" -- TLDs -- has led to a totally outrageous but equally predictable result: honorable brands feel obliged, in some cases, to buy expensive domains just to protect themselves from trolls, squatters and malefactors.

Here's a perfect example.

ICANN, which made this happen, is raking in cash along with the operators who are selling domains no one needs.﻿

The explosion of "top level domains" -- TLDs -- has led to a totally outrageous but equally predictable result: honorable brands feel obliged, in some cases, to buy expensive domains just to protect themselves from trolls, squatters and malefactors.

Here's a perfect example.

ICANN, which made this happen, is raking in cash along with the operators who are selling domains no one needs.﻿___

Well, so much for the 3.16 kernel in Ubuntu 14.04.2. After a couple of mostly trouble-free days I had my first hard freeze -- so I guess it's somewhat more stable on my ThinkPad T440s than Ubuntu 14.10 was (a horror show) but still not what I need.

Have deleted it and reverted back to the 3.13 kernel, with some regret, since I still have to use my wi-fi dongle (the Realtek radio doesn't get supported before 3.16).

Even one freeze a week is too much of a hassle for me, since these things always happen at times that cause me to lose work in progress.﻿

Well, so much for the 3.16 kernel in Ubuntu 14.04.2. After a couple of mostly trouble-free days I had my first hard freeze -- so I guess it's somewhat more stable on my ThinkPad T440s than Ubuntu 14.10 was (a horror show) but still not what I need.

Have deleted it and reverted back to the 3.13 kernel, with some regret, since I still have to use my wi-fi dongle (the Realtek radio doesn't get supported before 3.16).

Even one freeze a week is too much of a hassle for me, since these things always happen at times that cause me to lose work in progress.﻿___

With trepidation, just installed the 3.16 kernel in Ubuntu 14.04.2. I prefer 3.16 because it supports the wi-fi card inside my T440s, which earlier kernels didn't support (I've been using a wi-fi USB dongle in the meantime).

The 3.16 kernel was in 14.10, which was horrible on my machine -- frequent freezes and crashes. So I rolled it back to 14.04 and resumed using the dongle, and haven't had a system crash since.

Hoping I get the best of both worlds now...and my plan is to stay with LTS versions generally.﻿

With trepidation, just installed the 3.16 kernel in Ubuntu 14.04.2. I prefer 3.16 because it supports the wi-fi card inside my T440s, which earlier kernels didn't support (I've been using a wi-fi USB dongle in the meantime).

The 3.16 kernel was in 14.10, which was horrible on my machine -- frequent freezes and crashes. So I rolled it back to 14.04 and resumed using the dongle, and haven't had a system crash since.

Hoping I get the best of both worlds now...and my plan is to stay with LTS versions generally.﻿___

Buying a new camcorder:. HD (720 ok but prefer 1080) obviously. Also vital: needs to be as small as possible; mic input, headphone jack. Strongly prefer optical zoom. Idealy also with optical stabilization and good pictures in lower light.

Ideas?

UPDATE: I've pretty much decided on this: Canon VIXIA HF R600, as the best combination of features and price.﻿

Looking for camcorder advice

Buying a new camcorder:. HD (720 ok but prefer 1080) obviously. Also vital: needs to be as small as possible; mic input, headphone jack. Strongly prefer optical zoom. Idealy also with optical stabilization and good pictures in lower light.

Ideas?

UPDATE: I've pretty much decided on this: Canon VIXIA HF R600, as the best combination of features and price.﻿___

As Apple insiders go more and more public about how much they hated Walter Isaacson's book about Steve Jobs because (they think) it wasn't positive enough -- it was a love letter, in my opinion, though not a great book -- a new film is showing Jobs' less-attractive side more clearly.

I'm thinking about doing a book myself, from a skeptic's point of view. I recognize Jobs' brilliance and drive. But this is also a guy who, among many other not-so-admirable things, led a conspiracy against his (and other tech companies') best people, in which companies agreed not to poach each others' employees.

What I won't have is the hours and hours of interviews that Isaacson and others got with Jobs. Apple made it clear to me in the 1990s that I would get an interview with the boss approximately one month after hell froze over. I can only speculate about why, but... more »

As Apple insiders go more and more public about how much they hated Walter Isaacson's book about Steve Jobs because (they think) it wasn't positive enough -- it was a love letter, in my opinion, though not a great book -- a new film is showing Jobs' less-attractive side more clearly.

I'm thinking about doing a book myself, from a skeptic's point of view. I recognize Jobs' brilliance and drive. But this is also a guy who, among many other not-so-admirable things, led a conspiracy against his (and other tech companies') best people, in which companies agreed not to poach each others' employees.

What I won't have is the hours and hours of interviews that Isaacson and others got with Jobs. Apple made it clear to me in the 1990s that I would get an interview with the boss approximately one month after hell froze over. I can only speculate about why, but I'm sure it had to do with my non-reverence for him and Apple.

Journalism had a bad day today, as Gigaom, the pioneering tech site, has stopped production due to financial troubles. Om Malik and his team have been an inspiration to countless people who appreciated the site and its commitment to solid, entrepreneurial journalism.﻿

Journalism had a bad day today, as Gigaom, the pioneering tech site, has stopped production due to financial troubles. Om Malik and his team have been an inspiration to countless people who appreciated the site and its commitment to solid, entrepreneurial journalism.﻿___

"When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket."

More great predictions by Telsa:http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1926-01-30.htm﻿

That was pretty good prediction in 1926. Tesla saw it coming.

"When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance. Not only this, but through television and telephony we shall see and hear one another as perfectly as though we were face to face, despite intervening distances of thousands of miles; and the instruments through which we shall be able to do his will be amazingly simple compared with our present telephone. A man will be able to carry one in his vest pocket."

More great predictions by Telsa:http://www.tfcbooks.com/tesla/1926-01-30.htm﻿___

Incumbent TV industry's consistently crappy and privacy-invading "smart TVs" are an invitation to Apple and others to get it right -- and absolutely destroy the current brands. How can they be so stupid?﻿

Incumbent TV industry's consistently crappy and privacy-invading "smart TVs" are an invitation to Apple and others to get it right -- and absolutely destroy the current brands. How can they be so stupid?﻿___

Hi, folks! I've launched a modest Kickstarter with two goals: the first, which is what's being funded, is to make a huge ebook of all the stories we commissioned in The Magazine: for curious people: about 300 stories comprising over 500,000 words!

The secondary goal is to use any funds over our production needs to start commissioning new work for a publication tentatively titled Old & New. It'll be about vintage technology (farm, home, videogames, pinball, etc.) — anything that isn't commercially manufactured at scale anymore, but people preserve and extend. It'll be about the tech and people who love it.

Old & New will start small with a blog and podcast, and I'm planning to start commissioning short non-fiction work, too, and then ramp up into a monthly electronic issue schedule with quarterly print editions and a yearly book.